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All this week, KUNC State Capitol Reporter Bente Birkland will be speaking with with four key House and Senate leaders to talk about their expectations and priorities for the upcoming session.

Legislative Leadership Series: John Hickenlooper

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Colorado’s 2012 legislative session gets under way this Wednesday. On Thursday Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper will outline his priorities and expectations for the session during his second State of the State speech before a joint session of the House and Senate. 

KUNC’s state capitol reporter Bente Birkeland sat down with the Governor to talk about his first year in office and where he’d like to see things go this year…

This concludes the Legislative Leadership Series, you can hear from key leaders in the state House and Senate and their priorities for the 120 day session in the series archive.

Bente Birkeland is an award-winning journalist who joined Colorado Public Radio in August 2018 after a decade of reporting on the Colorado state capitol for the Rocky Mountain Community Radio collaborative and KUNC. In 2017, Bente was named Colorado Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and she was awarded with a National Investigative Reporting Award by SPJ a year later.
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